Left, age 17 Dad’s eyes spark.

Age 18, the light extinguished.

Recruited by the Air Force Security Service, an elite crop, my dad became a cryptographer flying highly classified missions, intercepting, decoding & re-encrypting messages, sending them to Intel.

Forbidden to share his story experiences led to 5 suicide attempts. He died prior to declassification, his story buried with him.

Kristin Pedemonti USA